Judgment is mine said the lord. For a long time, I didn't think that was true. Judgment was my right. If people did shit I thought was dumb, then i'm putting a dunce cap on the toliet. I wasn't just checking for stupid shit though. It could just be things that I wouldn't do myself, I jammed on it, and treated my opinion as truth.
It's tiresome and time consuming being that way.
People start off at different places, on different levels, with different family, friends, neighborhoods.
Different contexts.
All with the innate desire to figure out the way to belonging and peace of mind with no map. Taking a test where the answers could be everything. The shit is confusing to everyone who picks up the paper, and your handed one at birth. Even the most enlightened do not have the answer key.
No one knows the complete context of lives of everyone they meet. Judgment blinds us from seeing that. Or remembering that.
To understand that about those around us, is in part, is what allows us to keep our humanity.
We often judge those who think and live differently that us. Having people around you who are ten toes deep in a lifestyle and mindset that you can't fade will have you more fucked up and down bad than a love affair with dope. Spending a lot of time passing judgment on them will do the same. It makes for certain that you will slowly, but surely, be stripped away from all that separates you from the animals.
Expose yourself to the world. Try vigorously to understand people outside of your circle, talk and learn from everything you do. If you disagree with what you find, then do so, but don't get caught up in easy trap of wandering the wilds of judgment, damning all those you encounter. Realize that that world isn't home and never will be.
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